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And in the middle of all that, Theory of Constraints in a tweet:

“When you're designing an operation you must choose your bottleneck. If the bottleneck appears somewhere that you didn't choose it, you aren't running an operation. It's running you.”

https://twitter.com/typesfast/status/1451543795045183490?s=2...



It's often said that ToC is a popularization of operations management knowledge that already existed at the time. Is there a better textbook that is more technical and not too dry?


I studied industrial engineering and don't recall "ToC" being covered outside of The Goal


Eli would have loved that thread…


Eli was a great man and mentor. I miss him almost every day.




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